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Coping with Grief, with Marianne Trent


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Have you lost someone you loved? Someone dear to you passed away, and you are dealing with the loss and grief afterwards? Or you are grieving things which never got to be, due to the pandemic? The loss you experienced can even be linked to something traumatic. 

In this episode I speak to Dr Marianne Trent about grief, loss and trauma, and how to cope with it in a way which gives you the permission to move forward with your life again, towards joy.

Dr Marianne Trent is a Clinical Psychologist and author of The Grief Collective: Stories of Life, Loss & Learning to Heal. She weaves a compassionate approach through all of her specialist trauma, grief and eating disorders work with clients


We cover:

  • What is grief?
  • Grieving things that never got to be
  • Traumatic loss
  • Yearning for the absent
  • Loss of self-referencing
  • Grief and trauma combined
  • Permission to feel joy again
  • Not wanting to move forward
  • Difference between grief and depression
  • Bereavement counselling/grief therapy
  • Processing transitions
  • EMDR therapy
  • Talking about our grief and not being okay
  • Grief/loss in the pandemic
  • Compassionate leave and kindness to self
  • Crying as help seeking
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    This episode was edited by Emily Crosby Media

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